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This
work is dedicated to the worldly and other-worldy muses that inspire
in me the desire to create.

Researcher’s
Note

In
the Age of Decay, the planet was not what it had been. Earth had
erupted into a crowded home in spite of its periodic global purges.
Communication had become so inexpensive and instantaneous that even
the most advanced bio-adware filters could not prevent sensory
flooding. Fads rose and died in moments, spawning counter-cultures
and counter-counter-cultures like viral branches of a mutating
evolutionary tree. The sheer overload of ideas became oppressive,
indistinguishable from noise. The best work of unknown artists and
artisans had become buried in a galactic tidal wave of data; untold
potential masterpieces hopelessly lost before ever having been
discovered. Humanity was losing itself inside its collective voices
all clamoring to be heeded at once.